The Art of Poultry Planning:
Balancing & Maximizing Value
Thursday, February 20th, 2025
3:00 PM-4:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM-1:00 PM PT
ACDA Members: Free | Non-Members: $25
Join us for an in-depth webinar exploring the critical balance of dark and white meat in poultry procurement. Learn how drawdowns work, the importance of SEPDS forms, and gain expert insights to optimize your commodity purchasing strategy. Don’t miss this opportunity to get your questions answered and take your poultry planning to the next level!
Meet the Speakers:
Mark Rodriguez
Integrated Food Service
I’m a husband and a father of 4 and a Pop Pop to two beautiful baby granddaughters. I started my food service career in 1984 at Quik-to-Fix Foods (Quick is not misspelled), the summer I graduated high school. Starting in a guard shack logging trucks in and out on night shift while working my way through a two-year degree at Eastfield College. I stayed with Quik-to-Fix for 20 years.During my time there I worked with every part of K12 foodservice operations: from receiving to shipping, meat purchasing and commodity diversions, ingredient purchasing, managing commodities and state accounting, serving as superintendent of operations and VP of purchasing.I left Quik-to-Fix and went to Zartic Foods in 2004. That’s when I started my sales career. In all I worked as an RSM for 10 years, Director for 7 years and VP for 4 years. I found my happiness was working directly hands on with customers. This will be my 41st year in K12 foodservice.
My passions are God and family, teaching and sharing, wood working, fishing, hunting, kayaking, gardening. I’m a child of the 70’s and 80s so anything Star Wars I own it. I love history, muscle cars and power tools.
Shannon Solomon, MS, SNS
Aurora Public Schools
Shannon Solomon is a passionate, innovative leader in the Restaurant Business and K-12 Industry. She is also a proud mother of five amazing adult children and grandmother of three. Shannon lives in Colorado, has a robust portfolio varying from Restaurant Operations, Efficiency Engineering, Corporate Training, and Organization Leadership. Shannon holds a master's degree in business and is a Credentialed School Nutrition Professional. Shannon has also competed on the Food Network’s show “Chopped” Chef competition as a School Chef and has received several local and national awards for her relentless leadership regarding customer service, innovation and positivity. Shannon’s deep passion is rooted at the heart of feeding her customers delicious, nutritious quality food with excellent customer service so that they may always be the best versions of themselves!
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